The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, 1618 by Peter Paul Rubens
Canvas Print - 3114-RPP
Location: Alte Pinakothek, Munich, GermanyOriginal Size: 224 x 210.5 cm
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Painting Information
In "The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus", Rubens has presented a subject rarely developed in more recent art. The legend of the Dioscuri, which has come down to us in various versions, tells us that the mother of both was the beautiful Leda, but Castor was the mortal son of the Spartan king Tyndareus, and Pollux the son of Zeus who received immortality. The inseparable brothers once kidnapped the daughters of their uncle Leucippus, who were the brides of the powerful Hades and the acutely gifted Linnaeus. A fierce struggle broke out between one brother and the other, in which the mortal Castor fell slain. Zeus could not grant the ardent request of Pollux to send him also to the kingdom of shadows to his beloved brother, but decreed that from that time the Dioscuri should spend one day at a time in the underworld, and the next on Olympus.
Rubens chose for his painting the moment when the Dioscuri master their lovely prey. Abduction and resistance are conveyed differently in the two couples. Castor in Roman armour on his horse is the restrained male knight who lifts the girl to him with gentle strength; resistance turns to surrender, the young woman's right hand now seeks contact with her captor, and the little god of love manages to restrain the horse without much effort. At the other pair, however, the girl fiercely defends herself, wriggling in Pollux's stern embrace; his horse - as impetuous as the rider - stands on its hind legs and little Eros finds it very difficult to tame it. The mythological scene thus becomes a penetrating picture of the relationship between the two sexes, a theme that has received too many layers of interpretation throughout Rubens's oeuvre. The group is composed in the form of a standing square at its apex, and, enclosed tightly on all sides by the frame, sweeps upwards with monumental suggestiveness. The plastically modelled and artfully interwoven figures stand out as a sculptural group against the canvas. The colouring is distinguished by an intensity characteristic of this period of the master's work.
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